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Dilmun was an important trading center from the late fourth millennium to 800 BC. [1] At the height of its power, Dilmun controlled the Persian Gulf trading routes. [1] Dilmun was very prosperous during the first 300 years of the second millennium BC. [24] Dilmun was conquered by the Middle Assyrian Empire (1365–1050 BC), and its commercial ...
The long-horned buffalo is thought to have come from the Indus Valley, and testifies to exchanges with Meluhha, the Indus Valley civilization. Circa 2217–2193 BC. Louvre Museum. [1][2][3] Meluḫḫa or Melukhkha (Sumerian: 𒈨𒈛𒄩 𒆠 Me-luḫ-ḫaKI) is the Sumerian name of a prominent trading partner of Sumer during the Middle Bronze ...
The Epic of Gilgamesh describes Gilgamesh travelling to a wondrous garden of the gods that is the source of a river, next to a mountain covered in cedars, and references a "plant of life". In the myth, paradise is identified as the place where the deified Sumerian hero of the flood, Utnapishtim (Ziusudra), was taken by the gods to live forever.
Akkadian (/ əˈkeɪdiən /; Akkadian: 𒀝𒅗𒁺𒌑 (𒌝), romanized: Akkadû (m)) [7][8][9][10] is an extinct East Semitic language that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia (Akkad, Assyria, Isin, Larsa, Babylonia and perhaps Dilmun) from the third millennium BC until its gradual replacement in common use by Old Aramaic among Assyrians and ...
The complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir (UET V 81) [1] is a clay tablet that was sent to the ancient city-state Ur, written c. 1750 BCE. The tablet, measuring 11.6 cm high and 5 cm wide, documents a transaction in which Ea-nāṣir, [a] a trader, sold sub-standard copper to a customer named Nanni. Nanni, dissatisfied with the quality, wrote a ...
One of the Hallstatt culture –era tumuli in the Sulm valley necropolis. Kasta tumulus Amphipolis. A tumulus (pl.: tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds or (in Siberia and Central Asia) kurgans, and may be found throughout much of the world.
The Dilmun Burial Mounds (Arabic: مدافن دلمون, romanized: Madāfin Dilmūn) are a UNESCO World Heritage Site [1] comprising necropolis areas on the main island of Bahrain dating back to the Dilmun and the Umm al-Nar culture. Bahrain has been known since ancient times as an island with a very large number of burials, the (originally ...
The adjective "Dilmun" is used to describe a type of axe and one specific official; in addition there are lists of rations of wool issued to people connected with Dilmun. [26] Dilmun was an important trading center from the late fourth millennium to 1800 BCE. [21] Dilmun was very prosperous during the first 300 years of the second millennium. [27]